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Can I build a server from an OS disk image that I upload?

Posted on February 11, 2014

I have a disk image… it can be in any supported format from ISO to AM, QCOW2 to whatever. Can I upload that to DigitalOcean and launch that image?



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No you cannot. The only images you can use are those provided by DO listed in the control panel.

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